bucket
[noun]
Synonyms: jail, calaboose, can, clink, cooler, hoosegow, jug, lockup, pokey, prison
[verb]
Synonyms: hurry, barrel, fly, hasten, highball, hustle, run, rush, speed, whiz

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

Bu‧cket, Hyacinth /buːˈkeɪ/
a female character in a humorous British television programme called Keeping Up Appearances. She always keeps her house very clean and tidy, and is a typical example of an English snob (=someone who thinks social class is very important and is eager to be accepted by people of a higher social class). She pronounces her name to sound like ‘bouquet’ (=an arrangement of flowers) instead of like ‘bucket’.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

I. buck‧et¹ S2 /ˈbʌkət, ˈbʌkɪt/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: buket, from Old English buc 'container for pouring liquid, belly']

1. an open container with a handle, used for carrying and holding things, especially liquids Synonym : pail

2. (also bucketful) the quantity of liquid that a bucket can hold
bucket of
a bucket of water

3. a part of a machine shaped like a large bucket and used for moving earth, water etc

4. informal a large amount of something:
They were drinking beer by the bucket.
bucket of
They made buckets of cash on the deal.

5. weep buckets informal to cry a lot

6. in buckets informal if rain comes down in buckets, it is raining very hard
⇒ kick the bucket at kick¹(20), ⇒ a drop in the bucket at drop²(8)

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II. bucket² verb
bucket down phrasal verb British English informal
to rain very hard Synonym : pour:
It’s been bucketing down all day.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

bucket
noun
ADJ. empty, full | galvanized, metal, plastic | leaky | champagne, ice | water | slop, waste a slop bucket full of scraps of food
mop | coal | fire The sand had spilt from the fire bucket.
VERB + BUCKET fill She filled the bucket with fresh water.
carry | empty, pour, throw She poured the bucket of dirty water down the drain.
BUCKET + VERB be filled with/full of sth, contain sth, hold sth | overflow
PREP. in a/the ~ | ~ of a bucket of oats for the horses
PHRASES a bucket and spade The children ran down to the beach with their buckets and spades.
mop and bucket The cleaner put down his mop and bucket and sat down.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

bucket
ˈbʌkɪt
See: kick the bucket , rain cats and dogs or rain buckets

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